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Z87 Extreme4 struggles to recongize SSD boot drive.

Hi there,

Purchased this board just a few weeks ago. Anyway, in addition to the UEFI freeze others have reported, I'm having this annoying problem where the UEFI inconsistently recognizes my SSD for Windows 8 boot.

Inconsistent, meaning that sometimes it boots directly into Windows and sometimes it gives me a black screen with a message asking for a proper boot device.

If I'm in the UEFI sometimes it will show my SSD drive, and sometimes it won't. If it shows my SSD, and I make the SSD boot priority one, it usually ignores my instructions on restart (i.e. I get the black screen with boot message again). I am using the current 1.8 version of the bios.

I can always get into Windows eventually by pressing restart a few times (as many as five) or going into the bios and then pressing restart a few times. Any ideas how to fix this problem? Or do I simply have a faulty board?

Re: Z87 Extreme4 struggles to recongize SSD boot drive.

This is not enough info to help troubleshoot your issues. Did you check that all the cables are seated properly? Tried swapping to a different SATA cable, maybe a different port? And what SATA mode are you using?

Re: Z87 Extreme4 struggles to recongize SSD boot drive.

Re: Z87 Extreme4 struggles to recongize SSD boot drive.

Originally Posted by Shiari

This is not enough info to help troubleshoot your issues. Did you check that all the cables are seated properly? Tried swapping to a different SATA cable, maybe a different port? And what SATA mode are you using?

1.) cables are good, seated properly. The fact that I am able to boot into Windows 8 and use the SSD drive once I am in Windows 8 without issue means that this is correct assumption?

2.) If it always works in another port means there's something wrong with the board, right? By the way it's in the Sata 3_0 port. The HDD drive is in SATA 3_1 port.

3.) SATA mode is AHCI

It always boots into Windows but it usually takes a few times restarting for the UEFI to recognize it.

Can you please help me? Give some other ideas before I give up on this board?

Re: Z87 Extreme4 struggles to recongize SSD boot drive.

1.) cables are good, seated properly. The fact that I am able to boot into Windows 8 and use the SSD drive once I am in Windows 8 without issue means that this is correct assumption?

I would say it isn't. At some point (different board) I suddenly had problems with my own SSD not being recognized anymore, but sporadically it would work. I was freaking out, thinking my SSD had gone (my housemate has had such trouble with his SSD, he had to RMA it). It turned out it must've been a poorly seated cable, as after I opened it and reseated the power and SATA cables I've not seen these issues re-occur. I probably pulled it loose-ish at some point, loose enough to make it behave erratic.

Aside from that, if you have the opportunity, testing another drive as bootdisk (on the same SATA cable and port), and/or testing your SSD in another computer might help to troubleshoot your issue.